(nautical) The process of swinging and compensating a ship or aircraft compass by determining and reducing the deviation coefficients and recording the residual deviations; now done by computer.

(US) A work shift between a day shift and a night shift, such as from 4PM to midnight, and the group of workers scheduled to work such a shift at a facility.

(baseball) A swing in which a batter starts to swing for a ball but stops the swing shortly before the ball reaches home plate.

(intransitive) To avoid work, especially by pretending to be ill; to shirk, to malinger.

(US politics) A state which may vote Democratic or Republican, in a given election or generally.

Proceeding fully, quickly, or completely; thoroughly begun and in progress.

(cricket) Sideways movement of the old ball through the air in the opposite direction to normal swing.

(of a bowler) To make the ball so behave. / (of the ball) To swing in this manner.

(baseball) A ball that travels a short distance as if it were bunted, but was produced by a full or checked swing.

(historical) Any of the agricultural riots in England in 1830, led by Captain Swing.